LANGUAGE COMPETENCES – AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN THE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
LYUBOV IVANOVA
Abstract
For long time now the requirement discipline is not the most important in the selection of staff. Firms are looking for staff with good organizational skills to be professional in terms of what they do. We need excellent knowledge and skills in working with electronic devices, which are part of everyday. It takes skill to handle the speech habits in the field of protocol and label broad general knowledge, good physical training, competence in relation to security measures that must be taken to control the manager and his family. And not enough is the communication in the mother tongue – there are indispensible serious linguistic knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. But such knowledge can be acquired only on the basis of good quality and mastery of the mother tongue. Knowledge of languages and knowledge of the culture of the country whose language is been learned can turn out to be very competitive and decisive force in the increasingly globalized economy.
Key words
Language Competence, Manager, Staff, Language Skills
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